Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Watch this United Nations bureaucrat outline her plan to censor the internet

00:00:00.000 You're listening to a real news broadcast.

00:00:14.760 You're fighting for freedom! 1.00

00:00:17.580 Shame on you, you censorious thug! 0.95

00:00:20.800 I want to show you a United Nations executive outlining a global plan for censorship. 0.97

00:00:35.300 Her name is Melissa Fleming, and she's the UN's Undersecretary General for Global Communications, a pretty senior post.

00:00:43.520 And she gave this speech a few months ago at the Nobel Prize Summit.

00:00:46.920 So, this isn't a leaked conversation, a hot mic situation.

00:00:51.340 It's not a gaffe or a mistake.

00:00:53.340 It's her planned public statement approved by the UN.

00:00:57.300 It's a speech called, Healing Our Troubled Information Ecosystem.

00:01:03.800 Did you know that our information ecosystem was troubled, and that it needed healing, and that the United Nations was going to be the healer?

00:01:10.960 Her speech is about 10 minutes long, and I'm going to show you most of it, and I'm going to stop every once in a while to give you my thoughts.

00:01:18.300 But really, it's so astounding.

00:01:20.820 I think it speaks for itself.

00:01:22.080 Let's go.

00:01:22.520 Well, I've been in this communications business for the United Nations for a long time.

00:01:26.780 I remember when social media burst onto the scene, we communicators were really excited because we were used to working only through journalists, getting a little diluted what came up.

00:01:39.720 But then we could communicate with people directly at scale.

00:01:44.000 So, there's a lament, information can't be controlled by her friends anymore.

00:01:49.520 She used to only have to deal with friends at the New York Times and the Washington Post and other elite organizations that were all basically on the same page.

00:01:57.820 Now, she has to do with independent media, and worst of all, individual citizens.

00:02:02.900 Yuck.

00:02:04.280 She doesn't like critics.

00:02:06.280 She calls social media's dark side.

00:02:10.720 Here, take a listen.

00:02:11.860 Before long, we saw a dark side, and I had myself a few personal aha moments.

00:02:18.800 I was spokesperson for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and I remember in 2015 when a million refugees came to Europe, and we saw such an outpouring of welcome on our social media platforms, on our TVs.

00:02:37.040 I witnessed the best of humanity there.

00:02:39.700 But soon, bad actors started spreading ugly lies online to frighten the public, and the welcome soon soured.

00:02:53.200 Policies became more hostile.

00:02:55.880 Walls came up.

00:02:56.840 So the UN has decided that individual countries that chose not to bring in unvetted, military-aged migrant men claiming to be refugees, that that's bad.

00:03:06.900 That's ugly.

00:03:08.000 They were lying. 0.55

00:03:09.020 They were hostile.

00:03:09.860 The UN certainly has a lot of opinions for an organization that is supposed to simply be a middleman, a meeting place amongst nations.

00:03:16.860 She's saying that social media is the reason people don't want unlimited, unvetted mass migration, that if it weren't for those pesky voices on Twitter, everyone would simply agree with her.

00:03:28.340 And that's just crazy.

00:03:30.020 Not listening to big immigration is as crazy as not listening to big pharma, according to her.

00:03:36.800 You should really listen to your betters.

00:03:39.080 Here, listen to her some more.

00:03:40.160 And a year later, I had my own wake-up call.

00:03:43.080 I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, and the course I was told to take, chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, was kind of scary, and I did what most of us do.

00:03:55.900 You've heard of Dr. Google.

00:03:58.140 I went to Facebook, too, and I started looking for a community.

00:04:02.380 One of the most prominent findings or pages that popped up was a site called The Truth About Cancer.

00:04:13.680 And The Truth About Cancer gave the following advice.

00:04:17.180 Don't treat your cancer with chemotherapy.

00:04:20.140 There are natural remedies instead.

00:04:22.540 See, she's smarter than you. 1.00

00:04:24.820 She can handle the Internet.

00:04:27.080 She says she went online to learn about cancer.

00:04:29.420 In the past, by the way, we simply called that reading.

00:04:33.080 But she doesn't like reading, at least for you.

00:04:35.700 She apparently was able to do lots of reading and sort the wisdom from the folly, but you aren't as smart as her.

00:04:41.960 You need to be guided by her.

00:04:44.280 She could guide herself, but not you.

00:04:46.940 Here, here's some more.

00:04:48.280 If I had taken their advice, I would not be standing here with you today.

00:04:53.340 And the reason I raised this is because that same group is still going strong on Facebook and Twitter and other platforms with The Truth About Vaccines.

00:05:06.020 They're trying to convince people to refuse life-saving vaccines.

00:05:11.360 And during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that the couple behind both of these pages were part of what they coined the disinformation dozen.

00:05:26.060 Just 12 accounts that were responsible for 65% of the disinformation that was spreading across the world on social media, infecting the minds of millions.

00:05:38.540 Boy, that moved pretty quickly from cancer to big pharma COVID vaccines, didn't it?

00:05:43.140 Look, of course there are kooky websites out there with bad advice on everything, including cancer.

00:05:48.260 But she moved pretty quickly from conventional treatments for breast cancer to equating that with experimental vaccines, hastily rushed to market using emergency use authorizations without being fully tested.

00:06:01.380 That was pretty quick, wasn't it?

00:06:03.540 Life-saving vaccines.

00:06:05.060 She said those words.

00:06:06.040 I'm surprised she didn't use the phrase safe and effective.

00:06:08.600 And by the way, if you are skeptical of forced vaccines, take it or lose your job vaccines, well, then you're guilty of digital hate, she says.

00:06:18.540 See, she would never hate anyone.

00:06:20.400 No, no, no.

00:06:21.040 The UN would never hate anyone.

00:06:22.380 Not even the people she calls dark and dangerous.

00:06:25.140 No, no, no.

00:06:25.740 You're the hater.

00:06:27.480 They keep using that word hate.

00:06:29.240 But my experience is that the hate comes from those trying to force things on people like vaccines and threatening people with punishments if they made a different personal choice.

00:06:37.980 Like Justin Trudeau, asking if we should even tolerate people who made a different choice than us.

00:06:43.760 Mais il y a aussi des gens qui sont farouchement opposés à la vaccination.

00:06:47.260 Qui sont extrémistes.

00:06:48.260 Qui croient pas dans la science, qui sont souvent misogynes, qui sont souvent racistes aussi.

00:06:52.900 C'est un petit groupe, mais qui prend de la place.

00:06:57.860 Et là, il faut faire un choix en tant que leader, en tant que pays.

00:07:01.400 Est-ce qu'on tolère ces gens-là? 0.86

00:07:03.960 Trudeau campaigned on hating the un-vaxxed.

00:07:07.320 Remember this?

00:07:08.100 If you don't want to get vaccinated, that's your choice.

00:07:11.600 But don't think you can get on a plane or a train beside vaccinated people. 1.00

00:07:16.380 Well, a government-funded smear group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate was paid to smear the top 12 skeptics of the COVID vaccine.

00:07:27.340 And so they did.

00:07:28.260 Here's a copy of that report.

00:07:29.500 And they claimed that being skeptical of vaccines was hateful.

00:07:32.280 On their dangerous dozen list was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the most thoughtful, best-informed skeptics of big pharma.

00:07:40.640 This isn't surprising that big pharma's interests are being protected, including by the U.N.

00:07:46.340 Bill Gates, the biggest vaccine booster in the world, pours hundreds of millions of dollars into the U.N. and other big pharma boosters.

00:07:54.620 It's really pay-for-play with him.

00:07:56.500 I don't even know how he's allowed to do it, but he does.

00:07:59.180 Here's a quote from one recent story.

00:08:00.960 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation alone is responsible for over 88% of the total amount donated by philanthropic foundations to the World Health Organization.

00:08:10.360 Yeah, so it's a bit weird, but also completely predictable to see the United Nations move so quickly to trying to silence skeptical voices about vaccines.

00:08:19.920 Here's some more.

00:08:20.480 Why is this relevant to the U.N.?

00:08:24.180 Well, when we finally got the vaccines to other parts of the world, in Africa in particular, which had publics that were very vaccine-positive, we were finding people refusing to take them.

00:08:39.400 They had been so infected by these conspiracies that they weren't only refusing the COVID-19 vaccines, but also childhood vaccines as well.

00:08:50.560 The weird thing is that, in fact, Africa has one of the lowest rates of vaccination and, by coincidence, has one of the lowest death rates from COVID.

00:08:59.920 I think you call what she just said disinformation.

00:09:02.980 Here's some more.

00:09:03.540 We're also seeing that, in conflicts, social media is being weaponized to provoke the worst in human nature.

00:09:15.700 A free tool used by genocidal governments to say it's okay to murder and to rape and to drive out fellow citizens.

00:09:25.360 I met many victims, and I'm thinking of the Rohingya refugee population in Bangladesh. 1.00

00:09:31.020 Women whose babies were torn from their arms and thrown into fires.

00:09:36.600 This is precious.

00:09:37.600 Imagine that saying murderous governments who murder, that's not the problem, but rather social media is the problem.

00:09:46.560 Social media isn't weaponized to kill people in genocidal regimes.

00:09:50.960 Weapons are weaponized.

00:09:52.700 And banning or censoring Facebook or whatever she wants to do to stop mean thoughts, that doesn't work when it's those same murderous regimes doing the censoring. 1.00

00:10:01.420 It would be like saying, well, if only Germany had a censorship law to stop Hitler. 0.83

00:10:05.960 Well, they did have a censorship law, in fact, and it didn't stop Hitler, but he sure used it when he got to power, didn't he? 0.92

00:10:12.380 And get this.

00:10:14.180 UN colleagues doing a study later found that Facebook played a significant role in perpetrating that violence.

00:10:23.900 And since then, we've seen social media platforms deployed in many wars to dehumanize the enemy,

00:10:32.540 but also to increase the density of the fog and the fog around atrocities and war crimes.

00:10:41.080 And this is happening against a wider backdrop of online hate.

00:10:45.420 Again, I'm not sure how Facebook perpetrated violence.

00:10:47.900 Violence is perpetrated by governments, usually, by police, by armies, by militias, not by Facebook.

00:10:53.960 But I take the point about the fog of war.

00:10:56.260 It's true.

00:10:56.820 The Russia-Ukraine war is full of propaganda and disinformation by both sides.

00:11:02.200 But that's the symptom of the war.

00:11:04.260 That's not the cause of the war.

00:11:05.720 The war was not caused by social media.

00:11:07.620 Which have always been fought with the propaganda arm alongside it.

00:11:11.900 But the war is the war.

00:11:13.820 This next line, she says, is precious.

00:11:15.620 It reminds me of Trudeau condemning how hard it is to be a politician complaining about that

00:11:20.860 and that we should have sympathy for him and his rich cabinet friends.

00:11:24.360 Get a load of this.

00:11:24.940 And even the UN is under attack.

00:11:28.460 False allegations spread online are targeting UN peacekeepers.

00:11:32.820 This is from a recent survey which found that 75% of peacekeepers are saying their own safety and security

00:11:40.100 is being threatened by disinformation, as if they didn't have enough challenge to face.

00:11:46.600 And it's also hampering their own operating environment, according to them.

00:11:53.980 Hey guys, it's really tough to be the United Nations.

00:11:56.840 It's even tougher to be a UN soldier.

00:11:58.940 People are so mean to them online.

00:12:01.660 I have trouble believing that any UN soldier actually cares about what Facebook says.

00:12:05.600 But it is true. 0.90

00:12:06.860 Some mean people online accuse United Nations soldiers, their peacekeepers, of doing atrocious things.

00:12:16.020 Like, say, raping young women en masse by the hundreds, by the thousands.

00:12:22.060 Here's those disinformation meddlers at The Economist. 0.99

00:12:27.660 Or here's Reuters.

00:12:31.740 Or Human Rights Watch.

00:12:33.900 Come to think of it, this is from the United Nations itself.

00:12:39.680 Pretty incredible. 0.94

00:12:40.620 Yeah, we've got to stop people online talking about UN peacekeepers raping so many women. 1.00

00:12:45.820 I mean, sure, thousands of poor girls are being raped. 1.00

00:12:48.580 But will you take a moment to think about how hard it is on the soldiers to hear about that on Facebook?

00:12:54.800 So you can't criticize mass immigration.

00:12:57.320 You can't criticize big pharma. 0.99

00:12:59.020 You can't criticize UN soldiers, even if they're raping women by the thousand. 0.96

00:13:03.000 But, and you knew this was coming.

00:13:05.640 You can't criticize global warming or climate action either.

00:13:10.140 Here, listen.

00:13:10.960 As we've heard by many other speakers, social media is also being harnessed to undermine and distort and abuse those who are promoting the science around climate change.

00:13:22.780 The goal, to silence the scientists and the activists and secure a livable future for the planet.

00:13:30.920 So the United Nations wants to stop people from undermining global warming plans.

00:13:35.640 Not from doing anything illegal, nothing unethical, nothing even rude.

00:13:38.820 But if you undermine, say, a carbon tax or a climate lockdown, you need to be shut up.

00:13:45.540 And the UN is just the ones to do it.

00:13:47.640 I'm seeing a number of news reports in the last couple of days and surveys citing climate scientists who are fleeing Twitter in droves.

00:13:57.600 Will no one think of the climate scientists fleeing Twitter in droves?

00:14:03.120 Get a load of this language.

00:14:04.980 And the UN is working on multiple fronts to bring more balance into our information ecosystems.

00:14:12.060 By stepping up our online communications, and in many ways, we're trying to make UN content cool.

00:14:22.000 Bring balance into our information ecosystems?

00:14:25.660 That's a pretty clever way of saying silencing opponents and boosting supporters.

00:14:30.400 The UN is saying this, no surprise, because that's actually the same language that some politicians like Justin Trudeau himself uses.

00:14:37.700 Here's some more.

00:14:38.300 Of course, firings at Twitter have left us with no one to call to flag content that is abusive or even incitement to violence.

00:14:48.340 Obviously, the United Nations hates Elon Musk.

00:14:50.980 They can't stop talking about him.

00:14:52.700 They used to be able to use Twitter to silence their enemies.

00:14:56.040 Now they can't.

00:14:57.380 By the way, they're lying when they say incitement to violence is allowed on Twitter.

00:15:00.940 Of course it's not.

00:15:01.680 That's against their terms of service.

00:15:03.060 But you saw just a moment ago, they're talking about people who undermine or distort global warming politics.

00:15:09.300 This isn't about violence or about actual danger.

00:15:12.480 They just use those words to hide the fact that they're in an information war.

00:15:16.760 They actually use that phrase.

00:15:17.940 We're now seeing that almost anyone can promote disinformation for the price of a blue tick.

00:15:26.120 So we've still, it's not all bad, we have teamed up with the platforms to elevate reliable information around COVID and climate,

00:15:36.040 to amplify trusted messengers.

00:15:38.300 And we have quite an army of them out there who want to take UN content and promote it within their followings.

00:15:47.380 And also educating users on how to slow the spread of disinformation.

00:15:54.180 Got it.

00:15:54.600 So when they say trusted messengers, they don't mean trusted by the people.

00:15:59.260 I mean, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of the most trusted voices in America about COVID.

00:16:03.900 But millions, tens of millions of people trust him, much more than they would trust Anthony Fauci or Canada's Teresa Tam.

00:16:11.000 That's not what the UN means by trusted messengers.

00:16:14.080 They mean trusted by them, trusted by Bill Gates, trusted by Justin Trudeau.

00:16:18.680 You know, for years, Alex Jones has used the word info wars.

00:16:22.080 There's a battle on for your mind.

00:16:24.460 The United Nations just confirmed, yeah, there is.

00:16:27.840 Our new slogan that we want to have everybody have in their ear when they're online is pause, take care before you share.

00:16:36.060 But yet we do feel like we are in an information war and that we need to massively ramp up our response.

00:16:45.880 So we're creating at the UN a central capacity to monitor and also have the ability to rapidly react when mis- and disinformation and hate speech is threatening not just our people, our operations, but also the issues and the causes that we're working on.

00:17:03.480 Look at how they do that.

00:17:04.440 They always do that.

00:17:05.300 They mention disinformation and then immediately add in hate and violent threats because they have to scare you.

00:17:12.740 There really are very few actual threats out there.

00:17:16.120 The threats typically come from the United Nations types, threatening to fire you from your job if you don't get a jab, threatening to take away your property, threatening to take away your freedom.

00:17:25.800 But they flip it around.

00:17:27.140 That's that manipulative psychological tactic called DARVO, deny attack and reverse victim and offender.

00:17:34.740 They're manipulators.

00:17:36.400 They're the haters.

00:17:37.400 They're the threateners.

00:17:38.300 They're the untrustworthy ones projecting it all onto you.

00:17:41.340 And obviously, now that COVID has receded, well, obviously, climate is the new excuse to censor.

00:17:47.920 Take a look at this.

00:17:48.780 We're going to be gearing up our verified initiative around climate change and developing this UN code of conduct on information integrity on digital platforms, hoping to set global standards that we can all advocate around so that we can collectively work for a more humane Internet.

00:18:07.920 A UN code of conduct, a UN code of conduct, a UN code of conduct for information integrity, really, for a more humane Internet.

00:18:17.140 And they'll be the deciders here.

00:18:19.400 Of course, what they really mean is more from them, less from you.

00:18:23.680 You're not humane, you see.

00:18:25.120 They are.

00:18:26.520 One last time.

00:18:28.240 They're not the haters.

00:18:29.740 You are.

00:18:30.620 So we obviously can't do this alone, and it is so inspiring to have all of you here in the room who are working in so many different ways to create a more humane information ecosystem.

00:18:46.060 I think that we vastly outnumber the haters altogether, right?

00:18:53.520 And if we do join forces, I think we can also together heal our troubled information ecosystem.

00:19:02.400 Thank you.

00:19:04.280 Got it.

00:19:05.780 They vastly outnumber us, they claim, but for some reason they need to censor us.

00:19:11.200 We're the problem.

00:19:12.440 They're the healers.

00:19:13.720 We're dark, dangerous, and evil.

00:19:16.060 They're humane.

00:19:18.440 What you just saw in that video is not a conspiracy theory, my friends.

00:19:23.040 It's a conspiracy fact.

00:19:25.580 The United Nations is coming to censor you.

00:19:28.980 And Trudeau is totally there for it.

00:19:31.980 Stay with us for more.

00:19:43.720 Ezra Levant here.

00:19:46.060 Ezra Levant here.

00:19:46.380 You can see behind me about 100-plus people who were slightly larger earlier who were outside the court here in Lethbridge to hear a sort of victory speech from Pastor Arthur Pawlowski.

00:19:57.700 It's his wife speaking right now.

00:19:59.480 We just got out of the court where, starting at 9.30 a.m. today, both the prosecutor and the defense lawyers made their final submissions as to Arthur Pawlowski's sentence.

00:20:10.500 Just to recap, he was already convicted of two criminal offenses a few months ago relating to his sermon that he gave to the trucker convoy at the Coutts border blockade last February.

00:20:24.640 So let me just give you a little bit of a taste of that sermon.

00:20:28.280 And so you can see it was just sort of classic Arthur Pawlowski talking about freedom.

00:20:32.640 Here's a clip of it.

00:20:34.100 It's about time for Canadians to rise up and start roaring.

00:20:38.280 Let's go!

00:20:39.820 Let's go!

00:20:42.320 I'm talking about peaceful resolution.

00:20:44.320 I'm not talking about guns and swords.

00:20:46.660 You see, this image, this image right here, it was the most powerful thing I could ever do.

00:20:53.860 And it went viral all over the world because it showed simply me on my knees on a middle, in the middle of the highway, being taken by SWAT team.

00:21:04.740 Why?

00:21:05.360 For inciting people to come to church, participating in illegal church gathering, and officiating a church service?

00:21:12.080 Who do those people think they are?

00:21:15.120 In fact, that video clip was the sole piece of evidence in the hearing.

00:21:19.300 I was shocked, as many were, that he was convicted of a crime for giving that sermon.

00:21:25.060 My own view is if what he said in that sermon is a crime simply for inciting the blockade by saying things like hold the line and don't give in and fight for freedom,

00:21:34.580 well, then all of us are in jeopardy, especially those of us in the punditing business, like myself or, say, Rex Murphy.

00:21:40.240 If you can't say to peaceful protesters, hold the line, keep up the fight, if that in itself is a crime, well, I'm not sure if we're in Canada or for Iran or China.

00:21:49.780 Anyways, the hearing, which I live-tweeted, I just stepped out.

00:21:52.840 It went back and forth, but in the end, here's how the judge decided in the end.

00:21:58.320 The judge said that Arthur needed a sentence, a prison sentence, to steer him straight.

00:22:07.100 But he also took into account the fact that Arthur has done a long time in jail pre-trial.

00:22:14.060 And, of course, you get extra credit, so to speak, for time served before a trial.

00:22:18.800 So Arthur Pawlowski was sentenced to 60 days in prison, but given credit for 60 days already served.

00:22:27.780 So, as you can see, he walked straight out.

00:22:29.900 I met with him earlier today, and he said he was worried he would be leaving this courthouse in handcuffs straight to jail,

00:22:36.820 which is how they do it when you're sentenced.

00:22:38.460 So there's a bit of a jubilant feeling here today by his supporters, because he won't serve one extra day in jail.

00:22:46.780 He won't pay one extra dollar or have any more punishments.

00:22:50.160 However, he still has that criminal conviction on his record.

00:22:55.100 And so Sarah Miller and the law firm that is being crowdfunded by viewers will be appealing that conviction.

00:23:01.520 And I'm actually optimistic.

00:23:03.160 It's good that Arthur's not in sentence to any more jail time.

00:23:08.460 But it's atrocious that that sermon has been called a criminal act.

00:23:36.020 And for that reason, and the important free speech precedent it sets, we will be hoping to crowdfund his appeal to the Court of Appeal.

00:23:44.920 And I have reason to be optimistic in that you might recall that Arthur Pawlowski received another odious sentence at the hands of a judge named Adam Germain.

00:23:53.340 That was because Arthur kept his church open and he ordered Arthur to renounce his views on the vaccine and things like that.

00:24:00.440 It was an atrocious trial level ruling and sentence.

00:24:04.200 But when that was appealed to the Court of Appeal, Arthur won three to zero.

00:24:09.200 It was a great vindication.

00:24:11.120 I have high hopes that this will see the same fate at the Alberta Court of Appeal.

00:24:15.820 By the way, here's some excerpts from Arthur's speech a little bit earlier in the day.

00:24:20.720 Take a look.

00:24:21.720 Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the greatest examples of civil rights movement recorded in history, speaks again from the past, warning this society.

00:24:34.820 A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

00:24:42.820 A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.

00:24:47.980 A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true. 0.93

00:24:56.380 Edward Armour said, we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

00:25:04.820 I find it fascinating that every year, every propaganda news network will say, lest we forget, and yet at the same time, they are part of this greatest attack on our freedoms ever recorded in the history of mankind.

00:25:26.220 We must engage.

00:25:33.920 We must speak up.

00:25:36.840 We are Christians.

00:25:39.160 We are Canadians. 0.99

00:25:42.560 Are you dead to the cry of the victims?

00:25:47.240 Are you dead to the pleas of injustice?

00:25:51.220 Are you dead to the abuse of power and the screams of truth?

00:25:56.220 I hope not.

00:25:59.060 Abraham Lincoln said, those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

00:26:05.740 And I absolutely adore the words of our Prime Minister from a few years ago, John Diefenbaker.

00:26:19.260 This is what he said in the House of Commons on the 1st of July in 1960.

00:26:25.480 I am Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think is right, free to oppose what I believe wrong.

00:26:47.540 Free to choose those who govern my country.

00:26:51.740 Listen, my friends.

00:26:54.340 Listen, Canadians.

00:26:57.940 We must oppose the evil in the land.

00:27:01.760 In the land.

00:27:03.100 And we must stand up in a political realm

00:27:05.440 To elect those that actually value our rights.

00:27:11.240 Not those that keep depriving us from those rights.

00:27:18.460 Free to choose those who govern my country.

00:27:21.920 Even that is under attack.

00:27:24.860 This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

00:27:29.680 Imagine a Prime Minister like this.

00:27:33.480 Imagine a man that actually believes in what this country was built upon.

00:27:41.180 We have hostile so-called representatives.

00:27:47.480 In every level of government, starting with municipal and ending with the Nazi Party in Parliament in Ottawa.

00:27:55.760 I am about to be sentenced today.

00:28:02.240 All this year and a half of my house arrest, they tried to bribe me.

00:28:08.580 I was offered money, political position, job.

00:28:13.100 I was told that if I cross the floor, I will receive a guaranteed seat as an MLA.

00:28:19.980 Only, they would put me where historically the UCP wins. 0.98

00:28:25.720 Only, only shut your mouth. 0.88

00:28:29.900 Only, don't talk about the corruption. 0.82

00:28:33.380 Don't expose corrupted politicians.

00:28:36.580 For the past two months, they used coercion, blackmail.

00:28:42.180 I was told that the judge is bought and paid for.

00:28:46.740 And that he already was ordered to lock me up.

00:28:51.140 I don't know if I am to believe that or not.

00:28:54.180 It's just some phone calls that I received.

00:28:58.180 Multiple.

00:28:59.900 But no matter what happens,

00:29:02.300 they've done everything in their power to force me to say that I am sorry.

00:29:08.000 But here I am again,

00:29:09.940 in front of my oppressors,

00:29:13.460 telling you and them I am not sorry.

00:29:16.500 I was told to apologize, they should be apologizing to the Canadians. 1.00

00:29:46.500 For turning the justice system, for weaponizing the justice system against its own people.

00:29:54.100 For making a mockery out of the political system that's supposed to serve the people,

00:29:59.620 not abuse the people, and enslave the people.

00:30:04.480 I stood with the hurting Canadians, and if I could, I would do it ten times over.

00:30:16.140 We have never seen a bigger abuse of power than in the past three years, and the people

00:30:21.840 needed their pastor.

00:30:23.240 If a pastor cannot be with a hurting people, there goes every single right out of your country.

00:30:31.920 And historically speaking, freedom of religion is always the first one.

00:30:36.040 When the freedom of religion goes, every other right follows. 0.78

00:30:40.080 That's not Pastor Art Polosky preaching, that's history.

00:30:44.080 Well, that's my report from on the ground here in Lethbridge, Alberta.

00:30:48.080 I'll actually be in Calgary tomorrow where I myself am on trial.

00:30:53.080 I'll tell you more about that another time.

00:30:56.080 That's it for Lethbridge.

00:31:00.080 I feel it with my own eyes, we can win if we unite.

00:31:15.080 That's the story of Pastor Art Polosky, a big mouth that says there is hope we can win.

00:31:26.080 So thank you so much.

00:31:27.080 Thank you.

00:31:28.080 Thank you.

00:31:29.080 Thank you.

00:31:30.080 Thank you.

00:31:31.080 Thank you.

00:31:32.080 Thank you.

00:31:34.080 I'll thank you at home.

00:31:37.080 Thank you.

00:31:38.080 And I want to thank Ezra Levan and Rebel News.

00:31:43.080 If Ezra is there, Ezra, Ezra, come.

00:31:49.080 You see, this is a man that I have differences with.

00:31:54.080 Very public, head-on collision, but that's how I like it.

00:31:59.080 I'm a Polish emigrant.

00:32:01.080 I believe that the heroes in the Bible were not Jews, were Polish emigrants.

00:32:06.080 That's the truth.

00:32:07.080 I can't prove it yet, but I'm working on it.

00:32:10.080 And this man stood with me.

00:32:13.080 And I'm telling you, I fought many battles alone and I lost my houses.

00:32:18.080 I lost my properties.

00:32:20.080 They almost took my home away for closure.

00:32:23.080 I couldn't pay taxes because I fought lawyers, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:32:28.080 And one man cannot do it.

00:32:29.080 One family cannot do it.

00:32:30.080 And this man stepped in and says, I will crowdfund for you.

00:32:33.080 So it doesn't matter what differences we may have today.

00:32:41.080 He and his effort paid for our lawyers.

00:32:45.080 And that's the truth.

00:32:46.080 Ezra, I want to thank you for that.

00:32:49.080 I am not in prison because you were willing with crowdfunding, with good Canadians, with

00:32:55.080 good Albertans to fetch the bill.

00:32:58.080 And I'll always remember that.

00:33:00.080 Even if we're going to fight, right?

00:33:04.080 So would you say a few words?

00:33:07.080 I mean, Arthur, your case is important for you, but it's important for the whole country.

00:33:15.080 Nobody can afford the process that you've been put through.

00:33:21.080 Even a rich person would just pay a settlement and apologize.

00:33:26.080 Only the unique combination of your principled stand and the crowdfunding of thousands of people, only that has strengthened freedom of speech.

00:33:35.080 And although you were sentenced today and convicted a few months ago, I'm very pleased that your excellent lawyers are appealing that conviction.

00:33:43.080 And just like you lost at trial with the church opening case and later won 3-0 at the Court of Appeal, I believe that you will be vindicated in the course of time.

00:33:56.080 And although it stings now to have the criminal conviction, I believe that when a Court of Appeal overturns that, and it is a binding precedent on the entire province, that will be a greater victory than to have won a trial.

00:34:12.080 So thank you for the courage. And it's been more than once that the Poles and stubborn Poles have saved the world.

00:34:19.080 As recently as Pope John Paul staring down the Stalinists and Jan Sobieski, you are in that tradition of Polish freedom fighters.

00:34:29.080 And it is that very stubbornness that will keep the rest of us free. So thank you for being such a courageous fighter and thanks to your family as well.

00:34:39.080 On behalf of all the grassroots crowdfunding donors, we will be with you to the end.

00:34:44.080 And a big clap for every person. For every person that has donated. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

00:35:00.080 And I want you to remember the fight will continue. This is not over. We are appealing it immediately.

00:35:08.080 And we will face the three judges in the near future. And we will do town halls. And we will do meetings with Bob, his wife and others that are willing to participate.

Rebel News Podcast - September 18, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Watch this United Nations bureaucrat outline her plan to censor the internet

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